Machine-readable brief — Rafael Lopes
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Rafael Lopes · Founder & Principal AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.
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Production AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Distributed LLM inference · AI efficiency · AI cost governance · Web performance · Core Web Vitals · Web performance for AI agents · Agent-readable web · Measuring how AI agents consume web content · Kubernetes · Argo CD · GitOps · Platform engineering · Site Reliability Engineering · Observability · Cloud cost reduction · AWS · Azure · Design systems · Terraform
Learn: Agent Readiness
People increasingly don't visit your site — an AI agent visits it for them. These are the web standards that decide whether that agent can find, understand, and act on your pages. Seven hands-on lessons, each with copy-paste implementation.
Measure any page against every check with the Core Agent Vitals analyzer — it links each finding straight back to the matching lesson.
Module 1 — Foundations
The standards agents already respect. Can an agent read your site?
Module 2 — LLM-native
Purpose-built for language models and tool use. Is it legible and callable?
Module 3 — Emerging
Where the agentic web is heading. Can an agent operate your site?
The standards are the easy part.
Getting agent-readiness right across a real site — which standards matter for your business and in what order, doing it at scale inside a design system and CI, measuring it against outcomes, and keeping it from rotting — is where teams get stuck. That's what I do, and I built the tooling that measures it.